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Edited by MisterSnuffy
No, they're completely different.
It Was His Sled is about major spoiler element from a work that got spoiled to the point that even most of non-fan known about it.
All There Is To Know About The Crying Game is, as you put it, the only thing most people know about the work. It doesn't has to be spoiler, it might not even be important thing, it might not even accurate.
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I read the crying game page over and over and there's literally nothing that states or even implies that the thing people know doesnt have to be a spoiler
Snuffy's right. That distinction isn't mentioned anywhere.
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The page actually specifies that the thing everyone knows about it is a spoiler, with the titular Crying Game example being that everyone knows the plot twist about the main character's love interest.
A trope wherein everyone only knows a work for one specific thing, spoiler or otherwise, goes in Signature Scene or Signature Line I think.
Edit: Ninja'd
Edited by Octoya
^ Maybe we could put this in TRS?
All There Is To Know About The Crying Game is not a 'trope' in the traditional sense — it's Fan Speak. The film's twist is apparently very well-known, and documenting the phenomena surrounding "The Crying Game" exists outside of TVTnote .
Whether its wicks should go elsewhere is a different discussion.
Edited by Synchronicity
Oh wait, I misremembered it. Sorry.
^^
Still barely has any reason to exist
Plus I can't really think of any legit examples of this trope other then the titular Crying Game.
Sure, but this is not the place to argue for the page's existence — that is TRS. I am just answering your question with the reason I think it exists to begin with.
Edited by Synchronicity
^^ The Sixth Sense. I don't know anything about the plot off the top of my head aside from the fact that Bruce Willis was Dead All Along. I'm sure there's others people can point to in other films. Ironically I think "It was his sled" could count too since few people these days actually know what the plot of Citizen Kane is, but everybody knows that the big plot twist is that "it" (many don't even know what "it" is) was his sled.
That said I do think this needs some TRS. My understanding has always been that It Was His Sled is for when people know the whole story including the twist thanks to Pop-Cultural Osmosis, whereas Crying Game is when nobody knows anything except the twist.
EDIT: Catfish would be another example for Crying Game. All most people know about that movie is the twist that it's about, well, a Catfishing
- a term coined because of the movie.
This sounds more like a topic for a Trope Talk thread.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
All There Is To Know About The Crying Game feels like an exaggerated version of It Was His Sled. "The only thing most people know about the work" isn't really much of a difference to warrant an entirely different trope